After years of trying to get the various Microsoft and Microsoft Live parental controls to work properly, I just gave up. I will be very surprised that all of a sudden MS is able to get this new browser to be child friendly when they have not demonstrated the ability to be child friendly in any of their previous parental filter products.

www.travelinghorde.com

Ahh, so basically Microsoft have released a 'child safe' browser so parents can leave the kids on the net without watching what they're doing?

I've seen something similar in a plugin for Firefox (can't remember the name), except it locks down the browser and only allows access to specific sites.

I'd still not let my kids on the internet unsupervised anyway, for one my 7 year old things Google is the internet :-)

Rob

Would anyone else have appreciated the enormous effort of putting a screenshot in this article?

First time reading the Inq?

as much as i agree with the improvements in internet saftey and full support this new development, your point about 'that tom bloke from myspace' being one of the main people under 18s talk to online, does not support the article at all, as everyone knows that tom bloke from myspace is the creator and face of myspace and is hardly an internet saftey threat to ANY under 18s or anyone online.